TIMELINE FOUNDRY
TimeLine Foundry is an ERP industry solution specifically for foundries and covers all business management functions in the administration and production in a closed, interface-free solution.
Our system was co-designed by an initiaton group, consisting of seven foundries and is still being further developed today in close cooperation with our users. This results in functional packages shaped by the very specific requirements of the industry.
Every manufacturing industry has its own special processes and requirements for enterprise software. Many ERP systems on the market now offer a wide range of functions and integrations for the most diverse business areas. But if you want to achieve the highest possible efficiency for your own company, there is no way around industry-specific systems.
After 30 years of experience, we know what challenges foundries face and how a software solution can provide the best possible support.
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TimeLine ERP offers foundries a unique basis for more efficient work through industry-specific functions in combination with a broad base of standard modules and complements this with unprecedented adaptability to individual requirements.
Control all processes related to your goods movements
Production planning with automated and detailed planning
Integrated tool management and tool making
Complete integration of quality management into the ERP system
Labor time recording, production data capturing, machine data capturing and quality data capturing
With TimeLine ERP, you control all processes relating to your stock movements in your warehouses. From procurement and reservations to production and delivery, you always have a comprehensive overview. Batch and serial number-managed items such as raw materials and supplies, finished goods and merchandise can be easily managed.
MRP run generates production and order proposals that are accurate in terms of quantities and deadlines on the basis of inventories, lead times and scrap quantities, taking into account existing demands. Cause references enable spontaneous quantity or date deviations to be taken into account across all levels.
Production proposals generated by the MRP run can be directly transferred into planning production orders by the automatic planning run, which are then scheduled according to priority and delivery date.
Keeping track of all raw materials, semi-finished products and finished parts is not always easy. TimeLine ERP helps you to manage any number of internal and external warehouses, with or without fixed storage locations. The administration of consignment warehouses, blocked stock storage and external warehouses is one of the core features of our warehouse management feature.
Highlights
In order to identify individual products or production lots at any time, serial or batch numbers can be used. For each serial or batch number, additional information can be added, such as best-before dates, status, or life cycle. This also includes the possibility of storing documents such as drawings, factory certificates or test reports.
The combination of life cycle and warehouse records as well as the usage list ensures complete traceability that even meets the highest requirements in the automotive, medical or aerospace sectors.
Statements about the ability to deliver are often difficult to make in turbulent times. An upstream determination of deadlines on the basis of the current planning capacity is suitable for this purpose.
Replenishment times of raw materials, lead times of suppliers and customers as well as the current capacity utilization are taken into account.
TimeLine ERP provides the functionality to manage warehouse containers as well as dispatch containers. These containers will be identifiable by a distinct identification number which will als simplify the booking routine. In addition to that container-specific bookings can be configured. Bookings can be done on mobile scanners or touch terminals.
Variable assignment
Whether item-related, customer-related or generally valid, you can minimize the maintenance effort involved in the metal surcharge conversion by specifically assigning the alloy contract.
Every common metal/energy surcharge calculation variants
Variable metal/energy surcharge display on reports
Variable and universal
Metal surcharge adjustment
TimeLine ERP can adjust customer-specific terms, outstanding orders and order calls. Price adjustments are logged within the adjustment protocol.
Planning is the heart of any industrial manufacturing company – and the weak spot of most ERP systems. Where other systems exhaust themselves, the functional diversity of TimeLine ERP‘s production module starts to shine.
With TimeLine ERP you can ensure optimal material availability and procurement. Future material requirements are determined and covered according to quantities and deadlines. This will help you optimize inventory levels, keep track of material movements and meet delivery deadlines.
The automatic planning run is the central tool for production planning. Daily changing requirements regularly pose a problem for planning. Thanks to the APS run, even short-term changes are taken into account and scheduled overnight.
Step 1: Import through EDI interface
Import of updated order call quantities and order call dates via EDI-Interface
Step 2: deleting planning production orders
Cancellation of every planning production order, which hasn’t been fixated yet.
Step 3: MRP Run
Recalculation of all primary and secondary requirements based on the new call-offs and generation of production proposals with target dates.
Step 4: Generate planned production orders
Conversion of the production proposals into new planned production orders.
Step 5: Redesign
Planned production orders are scheduled backwards starting from the delivery date. Alternative ressources are taken into account during the automated planning.
All production orders are automatically planned by the planning system against finite capacity. To do this, you define your machines (or resources), set up the “shift plan” and assign a target date to each production order, which determines its priority – the rest is done by the new schedule. This schedules all production orders backwards or forwards against the target date. The result is a constantly updated overview of all orders and their end dates, as well as the utilization of your machines/resources.
Fine planning is used to manually optimize the planning result in order to achieve an ideal setup sequence. Automated planning and fine planning are closely interlinked. In this process, the pending planned production orders and actual production orders are transferred from the automated planning into fine planning. This enables an alternative resource planning.
The integration of the extended workbench into the planning system, costing calculations, logistics and production feedback is easily managed in TimeLine ERP. All essential processes of external production are adminstrated by an accompanying document or forecasts.
External manufacturers can be linked as external resources in any routing plan. That is all you need to distinguish an internal from an external routing operation.
Lead times for external manufacturers can specified in days so that external operations are included in forward and backward scheduling.
Since TimeLine ERP also manages each external manufacturer as a supplier, individual prices can be stored for each operation. These prices will also find use within the calculation.
Since TimeLine ERP also manages each external manufacturer both as a supplier and as an independent warehouse. The outgoing goods are sent to the external manufacturer with an accompanying document, which means that the external manufacturer‘s stocks can be tracked at any time.
Through the barcode-supported feedback the external manufactuerer‘s warehouse is beeing balanced. Evaluations of the external manufactuerer‘s adherence to delivery dates are included in the supplier evaluation.
TimeLine ERP provides tool management and toolmaking features for foundries, as those are core areas of the industry. Tool life cycle, production cycles and ownership terms are displayed transparently.
TimeLine ERP enables you to configure tool sets. Any constellation of master molds and inserts can be used to manage single as well as multiple tools.
You store your tools, like your resources, in a master data record created specifically for this purpose. The tool is then assigned to the corresponding work sequence.
A production feedback of a routing operation containing a tool will automatically create a booking within the tool life cycle.
In addition to the automatic entries in the life cycle, you can also supplement these with manual entries, such as the delivery or shipment of the tool.
The quick entry of toolmaking orders (repairs, conversions, etc.) as well as the recording of production feedback times are made possible by TimeLine ERP. The booking of repair costs is displayed within the tool life cycle.
The effective amortization of your tool costs is ensured by tool amortization accounts.
In coupled production, also called joint or composite production, additional products are created through the use of multiple tools. Access the master data records stored in the mold master and the associated co-products. By specifying cavities, you can specify the distribution key for your article production. With the coupling production order you thus have a possibility to run this production process integrated in TimeLine ERP.
A core requirement for automotive suppliers is compliance with the new IATF 16949 standard, which requires the use of a quality management system. TimeLine ERP offers fully integrated quality management in the sense of a holistic solution concept.
In the production monitor, the routing plan, the inspection plan and the bill of materials are captured all together in one module including all of the technical documentation.
In the event of an index change, for example, the production monitor is then being copied to the new index. The index is traceable down to the batch.
TimeLine ERP fully integrates quality management up to the SPC (statistical process control) and therefore generates a so-called inspection order with every production order.
Since the introduction of the IATF standards, production- synchronous inspection has been mandatory for serial manufacturers with SPC-guided parts in the automotive sector. In TimeLine ERP, individual inspection cycles can be stored with reference to the number of pieces, production time or packaging unit.
This means that the inspection cycle also starts with the PDC stamping and leads to measurements at defined intervals.
Labor time recording (LTR), production data capturing (PDC), machine data capturing (MDC) and quality data capturing (QDC) are combined in an integrated overall system.
Production data acquisition is the backbone of the APS run and any form of production planning. TimeLine therefore provides an intuitive terminal interface that can be adapted to all individual requirements for booking and recording all production processes.
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